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Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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St Paul
Minnesota
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Consciousness
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Writing

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I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
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Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
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When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
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Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.
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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
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You don't blast a heart open, she said. You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
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Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.
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Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
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Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
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Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.
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Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
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Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.
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Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87
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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
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Perspective will come in retrospect.
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